Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: H. D. Moore OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 95266 DATE OF LOSS: 10 September 1907 CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded LOCATION: South Manitou Island, Lake Michigan RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: James Elliott, Saugatuck, MI - 1874 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: Capt. Gus Johnson TONNAGE: 143.20 gt, 136.00 nt DIMENSIONS: 103.25 x 23.42 x 7.58 CASUALTIES: None H. D. MOORE was bound from Harbor Springs to Port Washington with a cargo of hardwood lumber when she stranded while attempting to enter harbor during a fierce thunderstorm. Crew of 4 taken off, and 45,000 feet of lumber saved, by the U.S.L.S.S. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser - 13 May 1874 Buffalo Courier - 12 September 1907 Merchant Vessel List - 1881, '87, '88, 95, '96, 97, '98, 99 R. L. Polk Marine Directory of the Great Lakes - 1884, '91 Beeson's Marine Directory of the Northwestern Lakes - 1898, '99 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1908